THE SELECT LIBRARY 2/5 VOLS. 

 Can Yon Forgive Her ? 



By Anthony Trollope. 



"Mr. Trollope's last work may perhaps be a favourite with its 

 author, for he tells us that he has had the story of it before his mind for 

 many years, and that he has decided that the question asked in the 

 title, ' Can You Forgive Her ? ' ought to be answered in the affirmative. 

 The lady about whose forgiveness the public is thus questioned, is a 

 Miss Vavasor, and the offence for which pardon is needed is the heinous 

 one of having been foolish enough to jilt a very estimable, though some- 

 what too perfect, gentleman. (120) 



The DaltonS. By Charles Lever. 



"This work contains scenes from the late Italian campaign, and 

 from Mr. Lever's well known talent for depicting stirring scenes and 

 faithful portraiture of character, it is needless for us to say much. The 

 author of 'Charles O'Malley,' 'Harry Lorrequer,' etc., is too well 

 known to require recommendation. We have no doubt the work will 

 be well received." — Derby Reporter. (20) 



Tom Burke of " Ours." 



By Charles Lever. 



" No more dashing pictures than *Tom Rurke,' ' Harry Lorrequer,' 

 and ' Charles O'Malley,' were ever painted. They glow with ani- 

 mation ; you forget you are looking on canvas, and feel sure you see the 

 iigures move, and speak, and act. To describe these tales in a sentence, 

 they 2LXQfidl of life. These works at once placed the author in the fore- 

 rank of writers of fiction." (28) 



Roland CasheL By Charles Lever. 



" Mr. Lever is the prince of ' Neck-or-Nothing ' novelists ! "We used 

 to think that for intrepidity in clearing the hedges and ditches, — the 

 boundaries and gaps, — of a story, there was no one like poor Captain 

 Marryat : but, of the two, Mr. Lever has the easier seat, and more 

 adroit bridle hand. Little can those who have run through the numbers 

 of ' Roland Cashel ' before us, divine what manner of headlong leaps 

 and frantic gallops they may be compelled to take, ere they come in at 

 the 'death' of the plot, and (let us hope) the marriage of the hero." — 

 Athenceum. (33) 



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